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Meaning of "perisarc" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PERISARC

From peri- + -sarc, from Greek sarx flesh.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PERISARC

perisarc  [ˈpɛrɪˌsɑːk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERISARC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Perisarc is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PERISARC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

perisarc

Hydrozoa

Hydrozoa are a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most living in salt water. The colonies of the colonial species can be large, and in some cases the specialized individual animals cannot survive outside the colony. A few genera within this class live in fresh water. Hydrozoans are related to jellyfish and corals and belong to the phylum Cnidaria. Some examples of hydrozoans are the freshwater jelly, freshwater polyps, Obelia, Portuguese man o' war, chondrophores, "air fern", and pink-hearted hydroids.

Definition of perisarc in the English dictionary

The definition of perisarc in the dictionary is the outer chitinous layer secreted by colonial hydrozoan coelenterates, such as species of Obelia.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERISARC


arc
ɑːk
at.
ɑːk
baresark
ˈbɛəˌsɑːk
bookmark
ˈbʊkˌmɑːk
coenosarc
ˈsiːnəʊˌsɑːk
dark
dɑːk
dat.
dɑːk
Denmark
ˈdɛnmɑːk
ectosarc
ˈɛktəʊˌsɑːk
exarch
ˈɛksɑːk
hexarch
ˈheksɑːk
Iraq
ɪˈrɑːk
lat.
lɑːk
marc
mɑːk
mark
mɑːk
mat.
mɑːk
mesarch
ˈmɛsɑːk
park
pɑːk
Pesach
ˈpeɪsɑːk
Pesah
ˈpeɪsɑːk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERISARC

perique
perisarcal
perisarcous
periscian
periscope
periscopic
periscopically
periselenium
perish
perish the thought!
perishability
perishable
perishableness
perishables
perishably
perished
perisher
perishing
perishingly
perisperm

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERISARC

carbon arc
Duparc
futharc
futhorc
island arc
Jeanne d´Arc
Joan of Arc
merc
mercury arc
minute of arc
narc
orc
rc
reflex arc
story arc
torc

Synonyms and antonyms of perisarc in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «perisarc» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERISARC

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The translations of perisarc from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «perisarc» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

perisarc
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

perisarc
570 millions of speakers

English

perisarc
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

perisarc
380 millions of speakers
ar

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perisarc
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

perisarc
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

perisarc
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

perisarc
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

perisarc
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perisarc
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Perisarc
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

perisarc
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

perisarc
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perisarc
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

perisarc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

perisarc
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पिरसर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

perisarc
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

perisarc
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

perisarc
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

perisarc
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

perisarc
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

perisarc
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

perisarc
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

perisarc
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

perisarc
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of perisarc

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERISARC»

The term «perisarc» is normally little used and occupies the 134.543 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERISARC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about perisarc

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERISARC»

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Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior
Near the base, the perisarc is only very slightly more flexible in the annular regions. Annular regions near the tip of the hydrocaulus could be bent 90° without buckling, while those near the base buckled at such large bends. The annular ...
G.O. Mackie, 1976
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Branching Morphogenesis
Formation of the additional perisarc walls from inside of the existing perisarc tube during new tip(s) emergence. A) Scheme of the additional perisarc plate formation in sympodial shoots. A grey line shows the tissue. Perisarc is shown in black.
Jamie Davies, 2007
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Annals of the Natal Government Museum
Hypostome. Hy. Hydrocaulus. i.f. Ingested food (Copepod eggs), i. p. Inner expansion of coelen- teron. J. Joint of lateral or supra-calycine nematophore. j. Joint. fc,. Adcauline knobs of perisarc. fc2. Abcauline knob. I. 1. Lateral leaflet of corbula.
‎1906
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Annals of the Natal Museum
Granular oell. H. Hydrocaulus. h. Hypostome. Hy. Hydrocaulus. i.f. Ingested food ( Copepod eggs), i. p. Inner expansion of coelen- teron. Joint of lateral or supra- calycine nematophore. j. Joint, fe,. Adcauline knobs of perisarc. Abcauline knob.
‎1906
5
Sessile Animals of the Sea Shore
of preventing other organisms from settling on their perisarc. How this is achieved is not known, but the mucoprotein outer surface, or possibly quinone substances, may be involved. The degree to which the perisarc gives protection against ...
Vernon Haris, 1990
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The Biological Bulletin
perisarc; in the thin perisarc of the more apical regions the resulting color is scarcely appreciable, but the thicker perisarc of the more basal regions, which is normally yellowish or brownish in most forms, appears more deeply colored in the ...
Frank Rattray Lillie, Carl Richard Moore, Alfred Clarence Redfield, 1921
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Some observations on the nervous system of Copepoda
Finally the perisarc is pushed back until it covers no more than the proximal third or fourth of the stem. In structure and proportions, then, larva and adult are strikingly different, a fact to which we shall return in the later consideration of the ...
Calvin Olin Esterly, 1907
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Annals of the Natal Museum ...
The stem carrying the hydranth has a perisarc consisting of two layers: (1) An inner laminated layer continuous with the perisarc of the stolon (Pl. XXXIII, fig. 3, cb.'), and (2), an outer vertically striated layer (ch.1). This layer alone forms the cup ...
Natal Museum (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa), 1908
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Coelenterate Biology: Reviews and New Perspectives
HYDROID PERISARC It might be expected that the formation of hydroid perisarc, which is accessible to study by a variety of methods, would be well understood. This is not the case and there appears to be no clear account of how the growth ...
Leonard Muscatine, 2012
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The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from ...
Colonies much branched; perisarc irregularly annulated (plate 42B) Coryne eximia — Colonies unbranched or slightly branched; perisarc not annulated 20 20. Hydranths 0.8-2.6 mm tall with 12-20 capitate tentacles scattered or arranged in ...
Sol Felty Light, James T. Carlton, 2007

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERISARC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term perisarc is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cheating Death... By Aging Backwards
Then, the perisarc (horny external covering) is produced, and either there follows a period of encystment, or it directly forms stolons and, ... «Science 2.0, Aug 11»
2
A Jellyfish Species Possessing Eternal Life?
The inverted jellyfish affixes itself to a hard substrate at the opposite end of the umbrella, forms a perisarc sheet and stolons, then produces new ... «BU Quad, Sep 10»

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